[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] RDT/Realmedia patches #2

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Well, i dont really know your / the RT*P code too well so maybe i
>> missunderstand something but AFAICS either
>> theres 1 stream per RDTDemuxContext in which case st should be that and
>> not the "first of a set"
>> or
>> there is a set per RDTDemuxContext, in which case the stream index and
>> the number of streams in the set seem to be the logic way to keep track
>
> Ah, I see, ok, so it's like this:
>
> General/RTSP/SDP:
> - there is one m= SDP line per RTSPStream
> - there is one RDT/RTPDemuxContext per RTSPStream
>
> For RTP:
> - there is one AVStream per RTPDemuxContext/RTSPStream
> - multiple RTPDemuxContext/RTSPStreams can stream the same content
> (but possibly in different codecs/bitrates)
>
> For RDT:
> - there are (usually) multiple AVStreams per RDTDemuxContext/RTSPStream
> - each AVStream within a single RDTDemuxContext/RTSPStream streams the
> same content, but possible in different bitrates/codecs
> - each RTSPStream/RDTDemuxContext streams unique content compared to
> other RTSPStreams/RDTDemuxContexts
>
> So I guess they are semantically not the same, no. I guess I could
> still share the "ic" (AVFormatContext) variable between the two,
> that's really the only one that I need. So, having cleared that up,
> would you prefer a first_stream_in_set variable or would you prefer
> just an array of AVStreams in the RDTDemuxContext?

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Ronald